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ORIGINAL: GhitaAmati

I live on the same peice of property my family owned 160 years ago. Everyone within about 5 miles is either related or their family has lived there so long they might as well be related. So yea, Ive got apretty decent relationship with my neighbors. We share farm land for the garden and the cattle, we have family easter egg hunts and sugar cane grindings. We have huge 150-200 people family dinners about 3 times a year....I know my kids can go to any house in the neighborhood and be taken care of, I also know that no matter where they go if someone sees them doing something bad they will get propery handled and returned back to me thouroghly embarrased. My kids spend more time at the neighbors during the summer than they do at home..and I think thats great that they have so many cousins their own age to play with. If someone shows up in the neighborhood that isnt supposed to be there, it gets taken care of pretty darn fast....I know there are people helping look out for me, and I look out for them. Whenever we go on vacation I have plenty of willing teenagers to come feed my animals and bring in the mail. I take some of my neighbors to breakfast in town once a week (ok, so they are my grandparents...)